· Private foundation
Lee S Monroe Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $155k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Mountain Ways Foundation | $40,000 |
| Support the Enlisted Project STEP | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| Point Blue Conservation Science | $15,000 |
| Feeding San Diego | $15,000 |
| Shelter To Soldier | $15,000 |
| Living Coast Discovery | $10,000 |
| Ocean Discovery Institute | $10,000 |
| PHLS Assoc Alumni | $10,000 |
| Groundswell Community Project | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–18, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- STSUPPORT THE ENLISTED PROJECT INC7× · 2018–2024 · $290k · revenue +297%
- FSFEEDING SAN DIEGO5× · 2020–2024 · $160k · revenue +29%
- STSHELTER TO SOLDIER INC6× · 2019–2024 · $112k · revenue +158%
Funded once
- SDSAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCAgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +93%
- OMONE MORE WAVE SURF CORPgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +45%
- WWWOUNDED WARRIOR HOMES INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +134%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The san diego veterans coalition (sdvc) is a catalyst that inspires collaboration and cooperation among service partners to deliver premier support for veterans in the san diego region.during 2023 the san diego veterans coalition (sdvc)…
To provide canine-assisted support to organizations, as well as kids withspecial needs, people with disabilities, wounded warriors and veterans withptsd through unique initiatives utilizing service, therapy and emotionalsupport dogs to…
Our organization's mission is to raise awareness for and provide physical aid and support to disabled us military veterans. our program covers a crucial gap in the industry-a veteran operated organization, that can assist veterans with…
Healing paws for warriors is a local veteran found / veteran led 501(c)(3) that provides rescue to trained service dogs to veterans faced with post traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), traumatic brain injury (tbi) and/or military sexual…
Zero8hundred's mission is to offer compassionate, evidence-based support to service members and their families, helping them navigate the unique challenges of transitioning from active duty to civilian life through a peer-based social work…
To provide scuba instruction for veterans with ptsd. the weightlessness of scuba provides a peaceful respite from the pressures and trauma of military service. scuba for amputees provides a freedom of movement not experienced for years…
The northcoast marine mammal centers (nmmc) mission is to promote the long-term health of marine mammals along approximately two hundred miles of remote coastline in humboldt and del norte counties in northern california. the nmmc does…
Providing service dogs to veterans and first responders
To inspire ocean conservation through marine mammal rescue, rehabilitation, education, and research.
Swords to plowshares' mission is to heal the wounds of war, to restore dignity, hope and self-sufficiency to all veterans in need, and to significantly reduce homelessness and poverty among veterans.
How this is measured
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 21 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SUPPORT THE ENLISTED PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds SHELTER TO SOLDIER INC ↗
- Who funds LIVING COAST DISCOVERY CENTER ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA ↗
- Who funds NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OCEAN DISCOVERY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds POINT REYES BIRD OBSERVATORY ↗
- Who funds GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ONE MORE WAVE SURF CORP ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds EPHRAIM FIRE - RESCUE ASSOCIATION ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Cushman Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Balmes Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lee S Monroe Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lee S Monroe Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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